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Last week the U.S. war crimes tribunal at Nürnberg issued an indictment accusing Field Marshals Wilhelm List and Maximilian von Weichs and ten generals with responsibility for killing 13,000 persons in the Balkans and in Norway...
...rnberg last week the U.S. posed the same question for U.S. businessmen who had armed the U.S. war machine. The U.S. indicted 24 former German industrialists, all officials of I. G. Farben Co., as war criminals, the first such indictment against businessmen in history. Among those whom it placed in the same category as Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting...
...guilty, did those who had dealt with Farben share the guilt? If wars could not be fought without the help of industrialists, then were not businessmen, in the final analysis, the real warmakers? That was what the U.S. War Crimes Commission seemed to hold in its newest Nürnberg indictment...
...actions resulted from orders which I received." He was proud of having designed the gas chambers in which 2,000 persons could be put to death at one time. He was proud of his efficiency. Told of Hermann Göring's remark at Nürnberg that Hoess could not possibly have taken 2,000,000 lives, the exterminator sputtered: "That shows how little he knows about how we worked. Why, I could have done twice as much." Hoess's beady eyes did not flicker as the sentence was read. It was death, by hanging...
Died. Franz Seldte, 64, one-armed German soda-pop manufacturer who founded the powerful (one million members) pre-Hitler Stahlhelm veterans' group, later Nazi Minister of Labor; of dropsy, in a Nürnberg prison, where he was awaiting trial for his wartime role in the slave-labor program...